Streptococcus criceti
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Phylum Firmicutes, Class Bacilli, Order Lactobacillales, Family Streptococcaceae, Genus Streptococcus, Streptococcus cricetus  
Coykendall 1977, correction
S. criceti  by Trüper and De’ Clari 1998.
Member of the "Mutans group".
Gram-positive cocci, grouped in chains.
Nonhemolytic, smooth, round, 2-3 mm colonies on blood agar. Some strains may
produce alpha-hemolysis. 1 mm colonies, rough, heaped, often glossy and may be
surrounded by liquid containing soluble extracellular glucan on sucrose agar.
Grow at 37 ºC, no growth at 10 or 45 ºC.
Aerobic, grow better anaerobically (gas mixture of 90% air, 10% CO
2).
Media: Trypticase soy agar with 5% sheep blood, Trypticase soy agar with yeast
extract, Brain heart infusion medium.
Isolated from oral cavity - animal (wild rats & hamsters Cricetus cricetus - caries lesion ), rarely from human oral cavity.
Unknown (oral bacteria - may be involved in dental caries or gingival infections).
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Positive results for Voges-Proskauer test, acidification of N-acetylglucosamine, amygdalin, arbutin, cellobiose, galactose, glucose,
inulin, lactose, maltose, mannitol, mannose, melibiose, raffinose, salicin, sorbitol, & sucrose (extracellular polysaccharide is
produced from sucrose). Esculin is usually hydrolyzed.

Negative results for arginine hydrolysis, H
2O2 production, hippurate hydrolysis, starch hydrolysis, urease, acidification of arabinose,
glycerol, glycogen, melezitose, methyl D-glucoside, rhamnose, ribose, starch & xylose.

Variable results for acidification of lactose & trehalose.
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